Sermons-First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

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Sermons-First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Sunday worship service. Home of liberal spirituality for over 150 years, the Society welcomes people of all racial and religious backgrounds. Our Congregation includes gay, straight, transgendered, and questioning people. More information is available at www.uusf.org.

  1. JAN 5

    The Stories We Tell

    “The Stories We Tell” Sunday, January 5, 2025, 10:50 am Humans are storytellers, and stories have the power to influence us, for better or worse. Our affiliated community minister, Rev. Mille Phillips, will address what stories we tell ourselves or others. Do they empower us or hold us back? Which do we need to rewrite or retell? What stories do we need in 2025? Rev. Millie Phillips, Affiliated Community Minister; Santana Gonzalez-Gomez, Worship Associate; Stephen Cox, pianist; Jon Silk, drummer; Akané Ota, songleader Shulee Ong; Eric Shackelford; Francisco Castellanos; Eli Boshears, Camera Operators; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Athena Papadakos, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/fW8hSajw6QU OOS: https://t.ly/20250105OSWeb PLAYLIST: https://t.ly/20250105VideoPlaylist

    19 min

  2. 12/15/2024

    Hanging of the Greens

    “Hanging of the Greens” Sunday, December 15, 2024 Join us for the annual Hanging of the Greens Service. This all-ages service has us begin together in the sanctuary and then move around the church, decorating garlands and wreaths and making pomanders, learning a winter song, and coming together at the end in that age-old ritual in pre-Christian Europe of bringing evergreens into the winter halls, a reminder that life continues through winter into spring. Come join the fun! Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Rev. Laura Shennum, Minister of Congregational Life; Eli Boshears, Worship Participant; Oriana Moren, Worship Participant; Calder Law, Worship Participant; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir; Mark Sumner, director; Wm. García Ganz, pianist Shulee Ong, Camera Operator; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/iYlWEVaJM58 OOS: https://t.ly/20241215OSWeb PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfzTv6bdw0xCnQyjr9WllZRM

    53 min

  3. 12/08/2024

    How Do We Lead?

    “How Do We Lead?” Sunday, December 8, 2024 Church has always been a place (and houses of worship in general) where the definition and understanding of how leadership shows up among us is broader and fuller than the world sometimes defines it. It’s not so much that we loosen the definition but that we see so clearly how it takes so many different skills and gifts to make the whole of what we want to do together possible. This Sunday we will ask three leaders, in different tenures of leadership, to reflect on what calls them into the work and what they have learned and reflect on our own notion of and call to lead. The service is created and led with our Nominating Committee -- the group charged at UUSF not just of identifying leaders but equipping and developing and celebrating their leadership. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Courtney Young-Law; Ruth Grace Wong; John Meliska; Linda Enger; Gino Fortunato, Emma Wakeling, Membership; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir; Mark Sumner, director Shulee Ong; Eric Shackelford, Camera Operators; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Amy Kelly, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://youtube.com/live/V9_8WY5zvXI OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hq-n-98TAs-GTyyqRvj8ccajLA1PEAMP/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwqWhI_JrAmEm8TuL5Ql7e0

    22 min

  4. 12/01/2024

    Seeing Nature and Presence Through the Eyes of Robin Wall Kimmerer

    “Seeing Nature and Presence Through the Eyes of Robin Wall Kimmerer” Sunday, December 1, 2024, 10:50 am This sleepy Sunday of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend—one of the quietest times I know anymore (assuming you don’t dive into Black Friday’s melee)—is a great time to walk and wander with scientist, professor, mother, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer.  Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Richard Davis-Lowell, Worship Associate; Rami Bar-Niv, pianist; Akané Ota, songleader; Wm. García Ganz, pianist Eric Shackelford, Camera Operator; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, Sextons; Amy Kelly, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/zy8FZIgq0d0 OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ilVz9TwwYbl0zHd4NkP0MGc81DgL_Z2L/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwdqvP4pj0lU4cJWMA_jlkH

    30 min

  5. 11/24/2024

    Breaking Bread

    “Breaking Bread” Sunday, November 24, 2024 As we prepare to gather at the tables to mark next week’s day of gratitude, let’s tell stories of what shows up on our tables, who and how we gather, and the practices that begin here. Bring a bread or baked good to share at our social hour afterwards, if you are baking or have the opportunity to do so! Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Daniel Jackoway, Worship Associate; Linda Harris, UUSC; UUSF Bell Choir led by Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir; Mark Sumner, director; Wm. García Ganz, pianist Shulee Ong; Eric Shackelford; Francisco Castellanos; Eli Boshears, Camera Operators; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/gHE3b_I9yDY OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vht-Ksa5CtVJ6Iog-izp03S6HBAgRL0a/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwVdUFH-cqMX2-zwCSFYR_N

    27 min

  6. 11/17/2024

    Forgiveness & Repair: A Ritual

    “Forgiveness & Repair: A Ritual” Sunday, November 17, 2024 We will gather in our annual ritual to examine where in our lives repair and forgiveness might happen. How can we heal ourselves and each other from harms we have done? Rev. Laura Shennum, Minister of Congregational Life; Carmen Barsody, Worship Associate; Lucy Smith, Secretary, Board of Trustees; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir; Mark Sumner, director; Maggie McGrann; Lila Bailey, soloists; Wm. García Ganz, pianist Eric Shackelford; Eli Boshears, Camera Operators; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/kaggDiRwo1U OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x6csom6X1Nyj7hjSekhzS-7LAkZNmJVj/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwfADzPVjdEaeRy7h9MkTxd

    30 min

  7. 11/10/2024

    The State of the Union and the Soul of the Nation

    “The State of the Union and the Soul of the Nation” Sunday, November 10, 2024 No matter what happens in our election, as I write this, it is playing out in voting booths and polling places across the country. We will have work to do together. The divide is too big, the rhetoric too scary and angry, for us to think that we can just declare victory or defeat and bunker back down on our side of the issues or arguments. As a nation, we need to reconnect to each other, to what is exacerbating any legitimate differences, heal some old wounds, and perhaps get good at declaring what we will not, the majority of us, agree to descend into. In addition, we need some articulated notion of the common good wrestled into national consciousness to anchor us against the storms of climate change and international anti-democratic movements and all else we need to face off, creatively, against instead of using up our energy to fight one another. This Sunday we gather ourselves, as we are, to begin to attend to what we have just been through and are facing as the emerging state of our union. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Rev. Laura Shennum, Minister of Congregational Life; Dennis Adams, Worship Associate; Galen Workman, Moderator, Board of Trustees; Larry Chinn, jazz pianist; Mark Sumner, songleader; Ben Rudiak-Gould, songleader Shulee Ong; Eric Shackelford; Eli Boshears, Camera, Camera Operators; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Athena Papadakos, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/Cu8ENwXI8gk OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Hu9qS3m1D4g4OifcfKCiNZDBUSNkjV5/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfzDilUrA9KjAtmwbtsYJn6n

    26 min

  8. 11/03/2024

    Uncertainty

    “Uncertainty” Sunday, November 3, 2024 Among the hardest emotions to tolerate is uncertainty. And yet it is both so much a part of our lives, inevitably, part of the entire mortal condition, and part of a life that takes risks and reaches for the stars. It is also the river we wade into this election season. How do we live in the face of and dance with uncertainty?  Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Santana McBride, Worship Associate; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir; Mark Sumner, director; Andrew Kessler, baritone; Wm. García Ganz, pianist Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Thomas Brown, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Athena Papadakos, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/dymfe-cLseg OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_aAJVtj43JfOrvG0Xdadggi0Gc5_cM3d/view?usp=sharing PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9Pinfymb2fpmxg0NLqKrG8X-P23

    27 min
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First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Sunday worship service. Home of liberal spirituality for over 150 years, the Society welcomes people of all racial and religious backgrounds. Our Congregation includes gay, straight, transgendered, and questioning people. More information is available at www.uusf.org.

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